--- title: "18 Perfect Quotes By Aristotle" description: "18 Perfect quotes by Aristotle. Plus more from Aristotle and more Perfect sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e0/aristotle-78_activity_happiness-lies-in-virtuous-activity-and_1342362.png" --- > [Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-lies-in-virtuous-activity-and-perfect-happiness-lies-in-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e0/aristotle-78_activity_happiness-lies-in-virtuous-activity-and_1342362.png) > [The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-most-perfect-political-community-is-one-in-which-the-middle-class/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e21/aristotle-78_class_the-most-perfect-political-community-is_2571198.png) > [The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-virtue-of-the-good-man-is-necessarily-the-same-as-the-virtue-of/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/aristotle-78_character_the-virtue-of-the-good-man-is-necessaril_622207.png) > [Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-then-is-found-to-be-something-perfect-and-self-sufficient/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/aristotle-78_action_happiness-then-is-found-to-be-something_217165.png) > [Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-is-a-certain-activity-of-soul-in-conformity-with-perfect/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/384/aristotle-78_activity_happiness-is-a-certain-activity-of-soul_1568308.png) > [The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-good-of-man-is-the-active-exercise-of-his-soul-s-faculties-in/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc4/aristotle-78_active_the-good-of-man-is-the-active-exercise-o_905679.jpg) > [Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-is-essentially-perfect-so-that-the-happy-man-requires-in/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/864/aristotle-78_activity_happiness-is-essentially-perfect-so-that_2425911.png) > [Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever … Happiness then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-is-something-final-and-complete-in-itself-as-being-the-aim/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/05a/aristotle-78_active_happiness-is-something-final-and-complet_2093497.png) > [In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/in-the-perfect-state-the-good-man-is-absolutely-the-same-as-the-good/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e13/aristotle-78_citizens_in-the-perfect-state-the-good-man-is-abs_2918992.png) > [... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-good-for-man-is-an-activity-of-the-soul-in-accordance-with-virtue/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a8/aristotle-78_activity_the-good-for-man-is-an-activity-of-the-s_3114063.png) > [The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-happy-man-will-be-always-or-at-least-most-often-employed-in-doing/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/422/aristotle-78_bears_the-happy-man-will-be-always-or-at-least_1551022.png) > [The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-most-perfect-political-community-must-be-amongst-those-who-are-in/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/aristotle-78_class_the-most-perfect-political-community-mus_2658176.png) > [Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/neither-by-nature-then-nor-contrary-to-nature-do-the-virtues-arise-in/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f3a/aristotle-78_adapted_neither-by-nature-then-nor-contrary-to-n_679522.png) > [Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-is-a-thing-honored-and-perfect-this-seems-to-be-borne-out/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/523/aristotle-78_agree_happiness-is-a-thing-honored-and-perfect_1457265.jpg) > [Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/whereas-happiness-is-the-highest-good-being-a-realization-and-perfect/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8d3/aristotle-78_different_whereas-happiness-is-the-highest-good-be_758155.png) > [We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/we-maintain-and-have-said-in-the-ethics-if-the-arguments-there/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b27/aristotle-78_absolutes_we-maintain-and-have-said-in-the-ethics_2656677.jpg) > [If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/if-the-state-cannot-be-entirely-composed-of-good-men-and-yet-each/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/893/aristotle-78_assuming_if-the-state-cannot-be-entirely-composed_2178000.png) > [Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/perfect-friendship-is-the-friendship-of-men-who-are-good-and-alike-in/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b24/aristotle-78_excellence_perfect-friendship-is-the-friendship-of_2705969.png) ## Other authors on Perfect ## More by Aristotle > [The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-knowledge-of-the-soul-admittedly-contributes-greatly-to-the/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/young-men-have-strong-passions-and-tend-to-gratify-them/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-body-is-at-its-best-between-the-ages-of-thirty-and-thirty-five/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-ensouled-is-distinguished-from-the-unsouled-by-its-being-alive/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/although-it-may-be-difficult-in-theory-to-know-what-is-just-and-equal/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-true-forms-of-government-therefore-are-those-in-which-the-one-or/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [All men by nature desire to know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-men-by-nature-desire-to-know/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/all-persons-ought-to-endeavor-to-follow-what-is-right-and-not-what-is/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/give-a-man-a-fish-you-feed-him-for-a-day-give-a-man-a-poisoned-fish/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-man-who-confers-a-favour-would-rather-not-be-repaid-in-the-same/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [The mother of revolution and crime is poverty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-mother-of-revolution-and-crime-is-poverty/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/obstinate-people-can-be-divided-into-the-opinionated-the-ignorant-and/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/happiness-does-not-consist-in-pastimes-and-amusements-but-in-virtuous/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/to-learn-is-a-natural-pleasure-not-confined-to-philosophers-but/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) > [Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/every-virtue-is-a-mean-between-two-extremes-each-of-which-is-a-vice/) [Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/perfect/aristotle/#itemlist", "name": "18 Perfect Quotes By Aristotle", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", 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